recovery

IPA: rɪkˈʌvri

The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
A return to normal health.
A return to former status or position.
The act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etc.
(economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
(finance) The recovery of debt.
(law) A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costs.
(mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore
(gaming) The ability to recover or regain health.

Examples of "recovery" in Sentences

I hope that your recovery is a speedy one. cody says:
The first step in recovery is to admit your addiction ...
If the people aren't recovering, what does the word recovery mean?
I think we are starting to get to a point and I - I use the term recovery, of the real estate markets.
And when you use the word "recovery," now I have to start wondering whether this is really a recovery at all that we're in right now.
One of the tricks I picked up in recovery is that my head can be a very dangerous neighborhood, I know better than to go there alone and unarmed.
In India, the term recovery agent or debt collector throws up chilling images of unnerving phone calls, bounces landing up at the door, goons intercepting your car at a traffic signal and throwing you off as they repossess in mid traffic and all of that.
I have no doubt that Obama will accept responsibility for the jobs numbers, BUT we are still in recovery from the disaster that was GWBush — recall Bush was on autopilot for the last year of his presidency when he saw that his miserable legacy was already written.